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Lalalaletmeexplain: Dating Apps Lost 600,000 Users. The Woman Who Predicted It Explains What's Coming Next.
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- The Marvyn Harrison Podcast
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- Apr 19, 2026
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- 5150
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Summary
She trained as a social worker. Spent 15 years watching what happens when relationships destroy people. Built a community of 250,000 women on Instagram. Wrote a Sunday Times bestseller. And then sat across from me and said: "I don't know if this is working. Nothing's changing." This is Layla, Lalalaletmeexplain and this is not the conversation you're expecting. We go into: Her dad leaving her mum for the woman who lived opposite, and what it did to her at 7 years old Why she resented her mother for years and idolised the man who left How her self-worth was built entirely on whether men wanted her, and the expensive therapy it took to undo it Dating apps losing 600,000 users and why in-person events aren't working either The confidence gap: women buying out dating events in 10 minutes, men not showing up Why men have stopped approaching women IRL — and why that's a misreading of what women actually asked for Family courts: the myth that they favour mothers (she breaks this down with 15 years of evidence) The manosphere as a grooming pipeline — and who's actually vulnerable to it The question we both carry: how do you keep telling the truth about harm when the people you're trying to reach are getting more defensive, not less? Why she thinks her audience radicalised her — and what she's doing about it I share my own experience of being in an abusive relationship at 19 This is two people doing the same work from opposite sides of the room, meeting in the middle for the first time. If you care about men, women, relationships, fatherhood, or just trying to figure out how we fix the gap, this one matters. Layla Instagram: @lalalaletmeexplain TikTok: @lalalaletmeexplain X: @lalalaletmeexp2 Book: Block Delete Move On (Penguin) Marvyn Instagram: @discoverwithmarvyn…